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microPledge: Funding Software by Pledging to Donate Money

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Interesting idea.. More formal version of the kind of thing we do in our Coding Snacks section.

Have an idea? Just need funding?
Want to join with others to support to an idea?
This site is for you.

FEES:
License fee:
Open source license: Free.
Closed source license: 3% of each progress payment.
Proprietary license: 6% of each progress payment.
Quitting a project early: 10% of your earnings so far; microPledge will pledge the fee to the project so it can be earned by any subsequent developer.
Refunds. Unless you are doing open source, you must refund all your earnings back to pledgers if you don’t finish the project. Either that or you must release your source.
Upload cap: for project releases above 10MB, $0.20 per MB in excess.
Incubator: $20 basic fee. Challenges cost $60 per hour of arbitration after the first hour.

http://micropledge.com/

I hope services like this succeed and that this will become a viable way of funding software in the future.

Newsletter for August 8th, 2007 - Codename "SUMMER SLOWDOWN"

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1. From the Editor
Greetings everyone and welcome to another edition of the DonationCoder.com newsletter, proudly labeled as non-spam and virus-free by one out of five internet service providers.

It's almost the end of the summer and a lot of people seem to be on vacation this month (not me!), so we don't have any discounts lined up for August.  But we'll be back with discounts next month.

I really wanted to have FARR v2 released in time for this newsletter but I ended up spending so much time on the updater features (which have turned into a full standalone flexible updater tool), that the FARR 2 release has been pushed back another month.  The updater features are important because they allow you to update and install plugins written by 3rd parties easily (like firefox does).  So I hope you will bear with me -- I'm trying to make the FARR 2 release as pleasant and smooth as possible.

Make sure you check out the pictures from the latest DC Gatherings:


2. Our Members Write Stuff
Some people are under the mistaken impression that our site is just for programmers -- it's not!  It's for programmers and non-programmers alike -- anyone who loves the world of software.  But one thing is for sure, the members on our site are busy beavers and they love to create and share stuff..


Continue reading the full newsletter now (there's a lot more!)..


Shareaholic: Firefox add to quickly submit links to stumbleupon, digg, delic,..

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Again there are a few extensions to do this but this one looks good (haven't tried it yet!)

The Shareaholic extension for Firefox makes it easy for you to submit the web page you're viewing to digg, del.icio.us, facebook, google bookmarks, reddit and stumbleupon. If you prefer, you can also e-mail the web page to a friend.

Bonus feature: Real-time statistics from digg and del.icio.us
Check whether the web page you're on has been dugg, and how many times it has been saved on del.icio.us. Stats displayed in your browser, at your request.

http://shareaholic.com/


Slickr: Flickr Screensaver

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I think there may be other such screensaver tools for flickr, but this one seems quite active.

Flickr screen saver that shows images by:
User - Favorites, Set, Tags, Contacts
Group
Everyone - Tags, Recent, Interestingness
Local
It does OpenGL fading and zooming and is easy on the eyes.

http://www.cellardoorsw.com/slickr/


Blueprint: A CSS framework to help you make grids and stuff

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Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

Features:
  • An easily customizable grid
  • Sensible typography
  • A typographic baseline
  • Perfected CSS reset
  • A stylesheet for printing
  • No bloat of any kind

Planned features
  • Support for PNG transparency in IE5.5+ (js)
  • Relative font sizing everywhere
  • Multiple versions with different grid customizations
  • Liquid layout version
  • Compressed versions of the files to reduce load times

http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/


Ball Revamped V Just Released: One of my Fave Flash Game Series

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I've written about Ball Revamped I-IV in the past, I consider it a terrific example of how to make a very addictive game with very simple game mechanics.  Fun and challenging, and hard to stop playing.



Well Ball Revamped V has just been released!

http://www.jmtb02.com/flash/brfive.htm




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